[Report 1933] / Medical Officer of Health, Edinburgh City.

  • Edinburgh (Scotland). City Council.
Date:
1933
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    PORT SANITARY ADMINISTRATION. The Port Sanitary Regulations (Scotland), 1933, came into operation on the 1st .May of this yeai. These regulations amend and consolidate certain of the existing iregulations for the prevention of infectious disease, and give further effect to the Inter- inational Sanitary Convention of Paris, 1926. The regulations revoked are those referring to Cholera, Yellow Fever, and Plague, rmade in 1907 ; the Public Health (Deratisation of Ships) Regulations (Scotland), 1929 ; Eand the Public Health (Port Administration Infectious Diseases) Regulations (Scotland), 11930. Under Article 10 of the new regulations, the Port Authority is required to establish rmoonng stations both within and outside the docks, at which ships can be moored without .coming into contact with other ships or with the shore. These have been established .with the concurrence of the Customs officials and the Harbour masters as follows :— Leith :— Outer Mooring Stations : Two miles out between the Martello Tower and the Wardie Burn. In Docks : (I) East End of Imperial Dock for large vessels. (2) North East End of Edinburgh Dock for smaller vessels. (3) The ships’ ordinary place of mooring, discharge or loading in the Victoria or Old Docks. Granton :— Outer Mooring Station : Granton Roads. In Harbour : The ships’ ordinary place of mooring, discharge or loading. During the part of the year in which the new regulations were in force, it was not found necessary to send any ship to these special mooring stations, and it is not anticipated that such action will be of frequent occurrence. Under Article 11, the Medical Officer is required to prepare and keep a list of •foreign ports which are infected or believed to be infected with plague, cholera, yellow sever, typhus fever or smallpox. These lists are prepared each week and are circulated 'o Customs Officers, Pilots, Immigration Officers, and Harbour Masters. Article 13 requires that the Master of a foreign-going ship arriving from a foreign port, except ports between the River Elbe and Brest inclusive, shall fill up and sign i declaration of health which, after perusal by the customs officer, is delivered to the Port Authority. In the case of a vessel arriving from a foreign port included in the hst prepared by the Medical Officer under Article 11, or where the answers in the declaration of health are unsatisfactory, the ship is detained until it is medically nspected. During the period 1st May to 31st December, 1933, 365 ships arrived from foreign ports and of these, 44 came from infected ports and were detained until 'ospected by the Medical Officer. No infectious illness or suspicious circumstances ^vere discovered and all were granted their clearance.